Tora Tora Tora is a 1970 epic war film that shows the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. The film was produced by Elmo Williams and directed by Richard Fleischer, Toshio Masuda, and Kinji Fukasaku, and stars a grouped cast including Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, So Yamamura, E.G. Marshall, James Whitmore, Tatsuya Mihashi, Takahiro Tamura, Wesley Addy, and Jason Robards. It was Masuda and Fukasaku’s first English-language film and first international co-production. The tora of the title, although literally meaning “tiger”, is actually a short film of a two-syllable.
